IBM has announced enhancements and new features across its Storwize storage systems. According to Eric Herzog, VP, product marketing and management, IBM Storage Systems, the systems are designed to address customers' need for higher levels of performance, security, flexibility, and functionality from their IT infrastructure, despite limited IT budgets.
Posted April 02, 2019
MapR Technologies, Inc., a provider of a data platform for AI and Analytics, is introducing new innovations in the MapR Data Platform. The new updates accelerate the compute journey with new, deep integrations with Kubernetes core components for primary workloads on Spark and Drill.
Posted April 02, 2019
Splice Machine has introduced a beta program for ML Manager, a native data science and machine learning platform to help data science teams to maximize the performance of their machine learning models.
Posted April 02, 2019
Dell Boomi is releasing the first in a series of solution accelerators that follow the NetSuite SuiteSuccess methodology for industry cloud solutions. The first accelerator available is the Boomi Integration Accelerator for NetSuite and Shopify, enabling customers to manage omnichannel commerce, including simple automation of critical data such as orders, inventory, and billing information.
Posted April 01, 2019
Machine learning is the next great frontier in big data. AI is set to revolutionize everything from how we interact with each other to how we work. There are many ways to implement ML projects, but not all of them work out as planned. That's why Vadim Nareyko, CEO, EnCata Soft will be giving a primer on Machine learning during his Data Summit 2019 presentation, "The Five Biggest Mistakes in Machine Learning."
Posted April 01, 2019
Keeper Technology, a provider of integrated data management solutions, and Seagate Government Solutions, a subsidiary of Seagate Technology, provider of data storage solutions, have announced a strategic partnership to provide software-defined storage (SDS) solutions for the federal government and commercial sectors.
Posted April 01, 2019
BMC has formed a strategic partnership with Automation Anywhere, a provider robotic process automation (RPA) software, to extend the BMC Helix cognitive automation's capabilities to include RPA across service desk processes.
Posted April 01, 2019
IBM has announced that IBM Blockchain World Wire, a real-time global payments network for regulated financial institutions, is officially accessible in a growing number of markets. Designed to optimize and accelerate foreign exchange, cross border payments and remittances, IBM says that World Wire is the first blockchain network of its kind to integrate payment messaging, clearing and settlement on a single unified network, while allowing participants to dynamically choose from a variety of digital assets for settlement
Posted April 01, 2019
Dell EMC has announced the results of the third Global Data Protection Index revealing an explosive growth rate of data of 569% and a jump in data protection "adopters" of nearly 50 percentage points since 2016.
Posted April 01, 2019
Carbonite, Inc., a cloud-based data protection provider, is acquiring of Webroot Inc., combining cloud-based backup and recovery with cloud-based cybersecurity. The total purchase price for Webroot was $618.5 million in cash, as adjusted with respect to cash, debt, transaction expenses and working capital. The purchase price was funded with existing cash on hand and funds secured under a new $550 million term loan. The interest rate on the term loan is a floating rate based upon LIBOR plus 3.75%.
Posted March 29, 2019
Neo4j's Startup Program now provides free access to Neo4j Enterprise Edition for startups with up to 50 employees and $3 million in annual revenue. In addition, the program now provides access to Neo4j Bloom for graph exploration and data visualization, enabling startups to share their work more widely with executives, investors, and development teams.
Posted March 29, 2019
Pepperdata, a provider of big data Application Performance Management (APM) solutions, is partnering with Cloudwick, a provider of digital business services and solutions, to offer a platform migrating big data to Amazon Web Services (AWS).Pepperdata provides Cloudwick with a baseline of on-premises performance, maps workloads to optimal static and on-demand instances, diagnoses any issues that arise during migration, and assesses performance after the move to ensure the same or better performance and SLAs.
Posted March 29, 2019
Unravel Data, a data operations platform providing full-stack visibility and AI-powered recommendations, is releasing a new portfolio of capabilities that help customers plan, migrate, and manage modern data applications running on AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. This release leverages artificial intelligence, machine learning, and predictive analytics to baseline on-premises big data deployments. It can then determine which apps are the best candidates to move to the cloud based on customer defined criteria. Unravel can also help validate the success of a cloud migration and predict capacity based on the customers' application workloads.
Posted March 28, 2019
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is releasing HPE Right Mix Advisor, a platform that helps businesses develop their hybrid cloud strategies. HPE Right Mix Advisor recommends which workloads and applications are ideal to move to public clouds, or keep in private clouds, and how to migrate those workloads to achieve the right mix of hybrid cloud according to each business's specific need.
Posted March 28, 2019
DBAs already undertake a large load in the enterprise and cloud is the latest factor changing how DBAs operate. As cloud gains momentum and migrations of applications and databases become more common, the question is often asked "Does cloud mean the end of the DBA?" DBTA recently held a webinar with Francisco Munoz Alvarez, director of innovation, Data Intensity, an Oracle partner, who discussed how cloud is bringing about that evolution and what today's DBAs must know to be successful in a cloud-enabled future.
Posted March 28, 2019
NVIDIA will acquire Mellanox after reaching a definitive agreement, uniting two high-profile companies in high-performance computing (HPC). With the addition of Mellanox, NVIDIA says, it will optimize data center-scale workloads across the entire computing, networking, and storage stack to achieve higher performance, greater utilization, and lower operating cost for customers.
Posted March 28, 2019
Qlik, a provider of data analytics, and Attunity, a provider of data integration and big data management software solutions, recently signed a definitive agreement under which Qlik will acquire Attunity. The acquisition of Attunity for approximately $560 million is expected to close in the second quarter.
Posted March 28, 2019
RDX, an independent provider of managed database and cloud services, is acquiring ClearDB, further expanding RDX's Database-as-a-Service platform capabilities. Based in Plano, Texas, ClearDB is a Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) provider that has deployed and managed more than one million cloud-based databases worldwide through its software platform, and is a private MySQL-as-a-Service provider.
Posted March 28, 2019
SAP is partnering with Camelot ITLab GmbH to co-develop a solution to bring the demand-driven adaptive enterprise (DDAE) model into the SAP Integrated Business Planning solution. This offering will aim to help companies drive a more nimble and adaptive supply chain management process to directly address the challenges of increasingly volatile business landscapes.
Posted March 27, 2019
SAP has chosen Widener University's School of Business Administration and Small Business Development Center (SBDC) SBDC's Success Lab as a SAP Next-Gen Lab for design thinking and analytics. The lab is an innovative space where students, faculty and business consultants gather to find solutions to help clients start or grow their businesses.
Posted March 27, 2019
SAP is making enhancements to the SAP Analytics Cloud solution, boosting augmented analytics, business intelligence (BI), enterprise planning workflows, and data integration capabilities. Building on the augmented analytics capabilities already available, users can add new machine learning and artificial intelligent capabilities to existing business intelligence and planning workflows.
Posted March 27, 2019
Virtustream, the enterprise-class cloud company and a Dell Technologies Business, will assist the FMC Corporation to migrate and manage its mission critical, global suite of SAP applications. FMC turned to Virtustream to complete a multi-year effort to consolidate its infrastructure and migrate its SAP applications to a new S/4HANA environment on Virtustream Enterprise Cloud.
Posted March 27, 2019
Unlike other awards programs that rely on our editorial staff's evaluations, the DBTA Readers' Choice Awards are unique in that the winning information management solutions are chosen by you—the people who actually use them.
Posted March 27, 2019
For the second year in a row Entrinsik Informer has been named a Top Performer in the Business Intelligence Software category for the Winter 2019 Customer Success Report published by FeaturedCustomers. Entrinsik Informer received an overall score of 93 earning a Top Performer award in the category.
Posted March 27, 2019
jBASE hit a milestone earlier this month as the platform celebrated its 30th anniversary. Utilized by more than 300,000 users around the world, jBASE became part of the Zumasys portfolio in 2015 at which point the company began enhancing the product and investing heavily in research and development.
Posted March 27, 2019
ONgroup is forming a strategic partnership with Maverick Systems, allowing the company to promote and support MVON# and NetBuilder. "MVON# is the future of MultiValue, and we are excited to be part of this journey," said Dick Thiot, Maverick CEO.
Posted March 27, 2019
Informatica, a provider of enterprise cloud data management, is introducing more than 150 new features and AI-driven innovations across five key segments in its platform, enabling enterprises to unleash the power of their intelligent data at scale and accelerate their digital transformations. The innovations, built on a unified, modular, and microservices-based platform powered by the Informatica CLAIRE engine, provide enterprise-wide collaboration across business and IT and in serverless, multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
Posted March 27, 2019
Crypto asset technology and data services company, Libra will be rebranding itself as Lukka along with introducing new and enhanced data Products.The company will continue to pioneer the development of technologies that bridge the gap between the emerging crypto asset and traditional financial ecosystems.
Posted March 26, 2019
DataBank, provider of an enterprise-class data center, connectivity, managed services, and cloud solutions, is expanding its data protection services through a partnership with Veeam Software. DataBank's Veeam Cloud Connect solution allows for compliant offsite data replication from on-premise locations to the DataBank cloud mitigating the risk of local storage or facility failure without the cost and complexity of building and maintaining offsite infrastructure.
Posted March 26, 2019
Unlike other awards programs that rely on our editorial staff's evaluations, the DBTA Readers' Choice Awards are unique in that the winning information management solutions are chosen by you—the people who actually use them.
Posted March 25, 2019
TigerGraph is releasing an updated version of its signature platform, combining graph pattern matching with real-time deep link analytics -- a unique mix ideal for fraud and money laundering detection, security analytics, personalized recommendation engines, artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Posted March 25, 2019
Morpheus Data is making a series of enhancements which will help enterprise customers reduce cloud costs and simplify management of hybrid cloud deployments. As cloud management matures, standalone cloud optimization products are giving way to comprehensive approaches such as Morpheus which help enterprises get cloud spend under control while also providing the governance to eliminate future problems.
Posted March 25, 2019
Axway Software is acquiring Streamdata.io, a software publisher specializing in event-driven API Management, accelerating the execution of its strategy by strengthening both its API Management offer and the technological capabilities of its hybrid integration platform, AMPLIFY. Axway acquired 100% of the share capital of Streamdata.io, a software publisher based in France and the United States specializing in real-time data distribution. Streamdata.io's expertise strengthens the capabilities of Axway's AMPLIFY hybrid integration platform, notably the API Management offering, by providing new technology capabilities and methodology.
Posted March 25, 2019
Trifacta, a provider of data preparation solutions, is releasing a new set of capabilities specifically focused on making data quality assessment, remediation, and monitoring more intelligent and efficient. The new capabilities are designed to help organizations modernize their approach to addressing data quality issues that hinder the success of analytics, machine learning, and cloud data management initiatives.
Posted March 20, 2019
Telit, a global enabler of the Internet of Things (IoT), is introducing Telit OneEdge, a new initiative developed to speed IoT deployments and reduce the time required to monetize the digitalization of businesses. OneEdge is a software suite that enables solutions for a new generation of Telit's cellular LPWA IoT modules.
Posted March 20, 2019
While much of the discussion around 5G has centered on consumer devices, enterprises are looking toward the impact the technology can have on their ability to serve customers and the bottom line. Not only are most companies aware of the benefits of 5G, but they are also already planning how they will take advantage of this next generation of wireless connectivity to power core business initiatives from new services, to IoT and smart ecosystems.
Posted March 20, 2019
SolarWinds, a provider of IT management software, is introducing machine learning-enabled database anomaly detection and an automated management API in the latest version of Database Performance Analyzer (DPA). The company is also refreshing its IT operations management portfolio, collectively designed to improve support for monitoring critical IT services and extend support for monitoring private cloud and converged infrastructures.
Posted March 20, 2019
Every day, more technology surrounds us. Things that were once fiction, are now everyday occurrences. None of this is by accident or happenstance, this is only through the work of many professionals and even amateurs in the fields of engineering, electronics, and computer science.
Posted March 20, 2019
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is releasing HPE Right Mix Advisor, a platform that helps businesses develop their hybrid cloud strategies. HPE Right Mix Advisor recommends which workloads and applications are ideal to move to public clouds, or keep in private clouds, and how to migrate those workloads to achieve the right mix of hybrid cloud according to each business's specific need.
Posted March 19, 2019
Collibra, a provider of enterprise data governance and catalog software, is partnering with Tableau Software, allowing users to easily locate and analyze Tableau reports and dashboards within Collibra Catalog and Collibra On-the-Go. The partnership combines the efficiency of Tableau's self-service analytics with the transparency and trust Collibra's software brings to data.
Posted March 19, 2019
Pivotal Software, a cloud-native platform provider, has announced updates to Pivotal Greenplum, a MPP analytic database based on open source Postgres, as well as a new offering, Pivotal Postgres, Pivotal's enterprise distribution of open source Postgres.
Posted March 19, 2019
According to Attunity, Compose for Snowflake eliminates the time constraints, complexity, and dependence on scarce resources associated with hand-coded processes, while leveraging the instant elasticity and cost advantages of Snowflake's cloud-built data warehouse.
Posted March 19, 2019
Rockset, the serverless search and analytics company, is releasing a cloud service that allows developers and data scientists to put complex data sets to use in minutes instead of weeks. Rockset's serverless data backend that continuously ingests raw data as it is generated and delivers real-time SQL queries at scale.
Posted March 19, 2019
Actian, a hybrid data management, analytics and integration company, is launching the Actian Avalanche cloud data warehouse, a fully managed service solution available on the AWS cloud platform. This third-generation, cloud data warehouse delivers breakthrough levels of speed, flexibility, and economics designed to make it easier for companies to deploy and scale data analytics services in the cloud.
Posted March 18, 2019
In many organizations, database professionals are taking on multiple roles, often combining developer and administrator tasks into one job. Ideally businesses should look to invest in a single tool that can simplify database access, management, and development, while also reducing complexity and improving productivity.
Posted March 18, 2019
At the SHARE conference in Phoenix, Broadcom announced the introduction of enterprise-grade support for Zowe, the Open Mainframe Project's open source software framework that enables customers to securely develop and manage mainframe applications like any other cloud platform.
Posted March 18, 2019
NVIDIA will acquire Mellanox after reaching a definitive agreement, uniting two high-profile companies in high-performance computing (HPC). With the addition of Mellanox, NVIDIA says, it will optimize data center-scale workloads across the entire computing, networking, and storage stack to achieve higher performance, greater utilization, and lower operating cost for customers.
Posted March 18, 2019
Pepperdata, a provider of big data Application Performance Management (APM) solutions, is releasing its new Big Data Cloud Migration Cost Assessment for enterprises looking to migrate their big data workloads to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or IBM Cloud. By analyzing current workloads and service level agreements, the detailed, metrics-based assessment enables enterprises to make informed decisions, helping minimize risk while ensuring SLAs are maintained after cloud migration.
Posted March 18, 2019
This, in turn, offers different attack vectors than traditional applications and creates opportunities for cybercriminals seeking to manipulate or monetize the data being shared on the blockchain. X-Force Red is comprised of hackers who can break into blockchain networks using the same tools, techniques, practices and mindsets as criminals would use. Through vulnerability assessments, vulnerability management programs, adversary simulation exercises, and manual penetration testing, X-Force Red can help organizations identify and fix vulnerabilities before criminals find them.
Posted March 18, 2019